A pretty meh day but still managed to see several spiders:
- a mesh-web weaver couple
- a crab spider, something in Coriarachnini
- _Attulus fasciger_ with that teeny tiny posterior median eye clearly visible
- a cobweb spider, maybe _Enoplognatha_?
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Today in the park, I noticed a lot of small flies around this one unhealthy-looking plant, a mint of some kind, that had been put outside the greenhouse. I looked closer to find…a flower crab spider (family Thomisidae, tribe Misumenini) feeding on a plant bug (family Miridae)! The small flies are kleptoparasites trying to get a bite of the spider's meal. It periodically flicked the flies away with its spare legs and moved around to get away from them, in vain.
I don't see flower crab spiders that often so this was a nice find.
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Die ca. 5 mm große Grüne Krabbenspinne (Diaea dorsata) findet man in höherer Vegetation im Gebüsch oder in Baumkronen. Diese hier saß in den Brombeeren.
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Alex Wild
Frank Jäger
neville park
Diego Pastor
Sam Prok
Gaël Covain
Axel Steiner
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